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CEDARE

November 18, 2009

On November 4th Keith and I had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Nadia Makran Ebeid, the Executive Director of the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), Dr. Ahmed Abdelrehim, Regional Programme Manager of CEDARE’s Knowledge Management Programme, and several other members of CEDARE’s impressive staff who took time [...]

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The Trashing of Egypt’s Treasures

November 16, 2009

As Keith already wrote, Cairo is a smoggy, crowded and chaotic city of nearly 20 million people.  Seeing trash on the sidewalks, while unfortunate, is not unexpected. Nor is it all that different from the city sidewalks back home in Philadelphia.  Outside of the Center City District, which imposes a quasi-governmental tax on local businesses [...]

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An (un)welcome to Egypt

November 13, 2009

Smog, diesel fumes, prodigious amounts of litter and crazy traffic: this was the unwelcome that greeted us as we left Cairo International Airport.  As we made our way through the crazy streets of Cairo from the airport to our hostel Downtown, we saw plenty of proof that the side bar warning in our Lonely Planet [...]

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